The Pink Bunny guy

[MicroBob]

X-posted from the NV&G forum.
I know some of you don't make it over there very much....and I thought this was worthwhile viewing.

Pretty humorous stuff....and i bet he pulls it off too.

This guy is my hero!!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5958012369 ]Pink Bunny Link[/url]

[jek187]

Thanks for the cross post MB.

I was thinking of bidding on this for BW, except I saw the starting bid last. Let's just say the figure I had in mind was a fraction of the one TPB lists.

[Jurollo]

This is borderline brilliant! It has golden palace written all over it too, haha!
~Justin

[Player12345]

they won't let him play in that suit. because of security issues most casinos out here ban all costumes.

[IggyWH]

Could it work? Sure... but I doubt anyone will pay $150,000 or at least start off at that. One of the things that made the forehead ad so huge was the amount of people getting into it. At $150,000 starting bid, even if anyone does consider this, they will pass it up being too high to start off.

[MicroBob]

I don't know about the fore-head thing.....but a few weeks ago on CNN they showed video of a pregnant lady with a short blouse (so that her belly was sticking WAAAYYY out) walking around some shopping-mall with GoldenPalace.com painted in big black letters on her belly.

Obviously this was a time-sensitive advertising gimmick also since she looked to be about 14 months pregnant. no idea how much she got paid for it though.


but if goldenpalace would spend $28k (I think that's correct) just to buy the grilled-cheez sandwich I suspect they could consider spending at least $50k on this guy. And he might talk them up to $75k andI'm reasonably certain he would be willing to take a half-price discount to see how it goes...and then possibly turn it into a more regular thing if it works really well.


Just because his asking price is $150k doesn't mean he can't be bargained down.


I say again....This guy is my HERO!!!

[ClaytonN]

Most of you guys would laugh at his supposed idiocy, but this is a brilliant move. Worst case scenario he does it for a lower price away from eBay, but he's proposing a brilliant advertising campaign to poker players. And all he has to do is play lots of poker all day.

Ingenius stuff, really.

[MicroBob]

Not to mention the likelihood of getting to go on vaious talk-shows ranging from NBC-Today to Letterman to Jon Stewart, etc etc.

After he's done he can write a fraking book about it (pretty much taking from all the stuff he writes in his blog) and probably make even more money.


The only real problem I have with this little gimmick is that I didn't think of it first.


Do we think that there are some poker-rooms out there who might not let him play in his pink-bunny outfit?

[_2000Flushes]

Is this the same ThePinkBunny who used to always win those daily raked hand contests at pokerroom?

I bet it is.

-2kF

[IggyWH]

I used to buy and sell constantly on ebay. I understand the marketplace a lot more than most people do.

1)NEVER start an auction for an outrageous amount. It's better to start it off at a penny and let the auction take off for itself. If it is such a brilliant idea, it will take off by itself.

2)He's trying to get free publicity from this auction AND make some money. It's obvious he wants both. With an auction starting off at a high price like that, it MIGHT only peak the interest of a small handful of people if it even does (and I'm doubting anyone will bid on it for real). There won't be any publicity from that.

Like I said before with the forehead auction, the thing took off because not only was it unique, it was attainable by anyone. Some mom and pop business was the one that ended up winning the auction... not some billionaire. What would starting this auction lower do harm? You telling me if there's a bidding war and he only gets $50,000 that he's going to turn it down?

To me, all this guy did was just waste $10 listing this auction.